Abstract
THE problem of the origin of organisms upon the earth continues to attract and to defeat the inquisitive spirit. Prof. Julien Costantin discusses it in various aspects: Had living creatures a beginning at all? If they had, what were the first organisms like? Did plants come before animals? Is there any clue in the so-called “life of crystals”? He also inquires into the meaning of animate organisation, the importance of colloids, the chemistry of the cell, the puzzle of cell-division, the processes of growth and development.
Origine de la vie sur le globe.
Par Julien Costantin. (Bibliothèque de Culture générale.) Pp. 192. (Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1923.) 4.50 francs net.
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Origine de la vie sur le globe. Nature 112, 278 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112278a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112278a0